1/6 THOMPSON'S STORY. "Why a girl should choose such a method of descent as that,"-- and he pointed to the ladder down which we believed her to have come--"to leave a house of which she had been an inmate for a year, baffles me, I can tell you. If it were not for those marks of blood which betray her track, I would be disinclined to believe any such hare-brained adventure was ever perpetrated by a woman. As it is, what would'nt I give for her photograph. |